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astro-ph.CO2026

Constraints on Dynamical Dark Energy from Multiple Probes in the Full Dark Energy Survey

DES Collaboration, T. M. C. Abbott, M. Adamow +166

We present results on dark energy evolution, assuming a time-dependent equation of state , from growth and geometric probes using the full six-year Dark Energy S…

astro-ph.CO2022

Joint analysis of DES Year 3 data and CMB lensing from SPT and Planck III: Combined cosmological constraints

T. M. C. Abbott, M. Aguena, A. Alarcon +168

We present cosmological constraints from the analysis of two-point correlation functions between galaxy positions and galaxy lensing measured in Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 3 dat…

astro-ph.CO2023

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Redshift Calibration of the MagLim Lens Sample from the combination of SOMPZ and clustering and its impact on Cosmology

G. Giannini, A. Alarcon, M. Gatti +111

We present an alternative calibration of the MagLim lens sample redshift distributions from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) first three years of data (Y3). The new calibration is base…

astro-ph.CO2025

Weak Lensing Mass Calibration of the ACT DR5 Galaxy Clusters with the DES Year 3 Weak Lensing Data

T. Shin, E. J. Baxter, E. Lee +93

We use weak gravitational lensing measurements from Year 3 Dark Energy Survey data to calibrate the masses of 443 galaxy clusters selected via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect from At…

physics.ed-ph2018

New Science, New Media: An Assessment of the Online Education and Public Outreach Initiatives of The Dark Energy Survey

R. C. Wolf, A. K. Romer, B. Nord +25

As large-scale international collaborations become the standard for astronomy research, a wealth of opportunities have emerged to create innovative education and public outreach (E…

astro-ph.CO2026

Dark Energy Survey Year 6 Results: Cell-based Coadds and Metadetection Weak Lensing Shape Catalogue

M. Yamamoto, M. R. Becker, E. Sheldon +81

We present the Metadetection weak lensing galaxy shape catalogue from the six-year Dark Energy Survey (DES Y6) imaging data. This dataset is the final release from DES, spanning 44…

astro-ph.CO2022

Joint analysis of DES Year 3 data and CMB lensing from SPT and Planck II: Cross-correlation measurements and cosmological constraints

C. Chang, Y. Omori, E. J. Baxter +163

Cross-correlations of galaxy positions and galaxy shears with maps of gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) are sensitive to the distribution of large-scal…

astro-ph.CO2023

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: Magnification modeling and impact on cosmological constraints from galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing

J. Elvin-Poole, N. MacCrann, S. Everett +93

We study the effect of magnification in the Dark Energy Survey Year 3 analysis of galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing, using two different lens samples: a sample of Luminou…

astro-ph.CO2023

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Constraints on extensions to CDM with weak lensing and galaxy clustering

DES Collaboration, T. M. C. Abbott, M. Aguena +159

We constrain extensions to the CDM model using measurements from the Dark Energy Survey's first three years of observations and external data. The DES data are the two-point co…

astro-ph.CO2026

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Cosmological constraints from second and third-order shear statistics

R. C. H. Gomes, S. Sugiyama, B. Jain +95

We present a cosmological analysis of the third-order aperture mass statistic using Dark Energy Survey Year 3 (DES Y3) data. We perform a complete tomographic measurement of the th…

astro-ph.CO2022

Mapping gas around massive galaxies: cross-correlation of DES Y3 galaxies and Compton--maps from SPT and Planck

J. Sánchez, Y. Omori, C. Chang +124

We cross-correlate positions of galaxies measured in data from the first three years of the Dark Energy Survey with Compton--maps generated using data from the South Pole Telesc…

astro-ph.CO2026

The Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program: A Reanalysis Of Cosmology Results And Evidence For Evolving Dark Energy With An Updated Type Ia Supernova Calibration

B. Popovic, P. Shah, W. D. Kenworthy +80

We present improved cosmological constraints from a re-analysis of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) 5-year sample of Type Ia supernovae (DES-SN5YR). This re-analysis includes an improv…

astro-ph.CO2022

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Calibration of Lens Sample Redshift Distributions using Clustering Redshifts with BOSS/eBOSS

R. Cawthon, J. Elvin-Poole, A. Porredon +83

We present clustering redshift measurements for Dark Energy Survey (DES) lens sample galaxies to be used in weak gravitational lensing and galaxy clustering studies. To perform thi…

astro-ph.CO2026

Dark Energy Survey Year 6 Results: Magnification modeling and its impact on galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing cosmology

E. Legnani, J. Elvin-Poole, D. Anbajagane +72

Gravitational lensing magnification alters the observed spatial distribution of galaxies and must be accounted for to prevent biases in cosmological probes of the large-scale struc…

astro-ph.CO2021

Dark Energy Survey internal consistency tests of the joint cosmological probes analysis with posterior predictive distributions

C. Doux, E. Baxter, P. Lemos +85

Beyond-CDM physics or systematic errors may cause subsets of a cosmological data set to appear inconsistent when analyzed assuming CDM. We present an application of interna…

astro-ph.CO2022

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: Marginalisation over redshift distribution uncertainties using ranking of discrete realisations

Juan P. Cordero, Ian Harrison, Richard P. Rollins +92

Cosmological information from weak lensing surveys is maximised by dividing source galaxies into tomographic sub-samples for which the redshift distributions are estimated. Uncerta…

astro-ph.HE2017

The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/Virgo GW170817. I. Dark Energy Camera Discovery of the Optical Counterpart

M. Soares-Santos, D. E. Holz, J. Annis +142

We present the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) discovery of the optical counterpart of the first binary neutron star merger detected through gravitational wave emission, GW170817. Our o…

astro-ph.CO2026

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: optimized CDM simulation-based inference with weak lensing map-level hybrid statistics

J. Williamson, T. L. Makinen, N. Porqueres +85

We present cosmological constraints from the Dark Energy Survey Year 3 (DES Y3) weak lensing data using hierarchical hybrid statistics within a Bayesian simulation-based inference…

astro-ph.CO2022

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Cosmology from Cosmic Shear and Robustness to Data Calibration

A. Amon, D. Gruen, M. A. Troxel +144

This work, together with its companion paper, Secco and Samuroff et al. (2021), presents the Dark Energy Survey Year 3 cosmic shear measurements and cosmological constraints based…

astro-ph.CO2026

Dark Energy Survey Year 6 Results: Cosmological Constraints from Galaxy Clustering and Weak Lensing

DES Collaboration, T. M. C. Abbott, M. Adamow +169

We present cosmology results combining galaxy clustering and weak gravitational lensing measured in the full six years (Y6) of observations by the Dark Energy Survey (DES) covering…

astro-ph.CO2021

The DES view of the Eridanus supervoid and the CMB Cold Spot

A. Kovács, N. Jeffrey, M. Gatti +119

The Cold Spot is a puzzling large-scale feature in the Cosmic Microwave Background temperature maps and its origin has been subject to active debate. As an important foreground str…

astro-ph.CO2021

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Multi-Probe Modeling Strategy and Validation

E. Krause, X. Fang, S. Pandey +121

This paper details the modeling pipeline and validates the baseline analysis choices of the DES Year 3 joint analysis of galaxy clustering and weak lensing (a so-called "32…

astro-ph.CO2024

Weak lensing combined with the kinetic Sunyaev Zel'dovich effect: A study of baryonic feedback

L. Bigwood, A. Amon, A. Schneider +122

Extracting precise cosmology from weak lensing surveys requires modelling the non-linear matter power spectrum, which is suppressed at small scales due to baryonic feedback process…

astro-ph.CO2019

Cosmological Constraints from Multiple Probes in the Dark Energy Survey

DES Collaboration, T. M. C. Abbott, A. Alarcon +166

The combination of multiple observational probes has long been advocated as a powerful technique to constrain cosmological parameters, in particular dark energy. The Dark Energy Su…

astro-ph.CO2022

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: cosmology with moments of weak lensing mass maps

M. Gatti, B. Jain, C. Chang +107

We present a cosmological analysis using the second and third moments of the weak lensing mass (convergence) maps from the first three years of data (Y3) data of the Dark Energy Su…

astro-ph.CO2026

Dark Energy Survey: implications for cosmological expansion models from the final DES Baryon Acoustic Oscillation and Supernova data

DES Collaboration, T. M. C. Abbott, M. Acevedo +118

The Dark Energy Survey (DES) recently released the final results of its two principal probes of the expansion history: Type Ia Supernovae (SNe) and Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations (…

astro-ph.CO2022

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: High-precision measurement and modeling of galaxy-galaxy lensing

J. Prat, J. Blazek, C. Sánchez +138

We present and characterize the galaxy-galaxy lensing signal measured using the first three years of data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES Y3) covering 4132 deg. These galaxy-g…

astro-ph.CO2026

Dark Energy Survey: DESI-Independent Angular BAO Measurement

J. Mena-Fernández, S. Avila, A. Porredon +80

We present a measurement of the angular baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) scale from the completed Dark Energy Survey (DES) dataset excluding the area of overlap with the Dark Ener…

astro-ph.CO2026

Dark Energy Survey Year 6 Results: Galaxy-galaxy lensing

G. Giannini, G. Camacho-Ciurana, A. Whyley +116

We present galaxy--galaxy lensing (GGL) measurements from the full six years of data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES Y6), covering and used in the DES Y6 $3…

astro-ph.CO2021

Probing gravity with the DES-CMASS sample and BOSS spectroscopy

S. Lee, E. M. Huff, A. Choi +102

The DES-CMASS sample (DMASS) is designed to optimally combine the weak lensing measurements from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) and redshift-space distortions (RSD) probed by the CMA…

astro-ph.CO2019

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Cosmological Constraints from Galaxy Clustering and Weak Lensing

DES Collaboration, T. M. C. Abbott, F. B. Abdalla +197

We present cosmological results from a combined analysis of galaxy clustering and weak gravitational lensing, using 1321 deg of imaging data from the first year of the D…

astro-ph.CO2026

Cosmology with second and third-order shear statistics for the Dark Energy Survey: Methods and simulated analysis

R. C. H. Gomes, S. Sugiyama, B. Jain +56

We present a new pipeline designed for the robust inference of cosmological parameters using both second- and third-order shear statistics. We build a theoretical model for rapid e…

astro-ph.CO2021

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Galaxy clustering and systematics treatment for lens galaxy samples

M. Rodríguez-Monroy, N. Weaverdyck, J. Elvin-Poole +102

In this work we present the galaxy clustering measurements of the two DES lens galaxy samples: a magnitude-limited sample optimized for the measurement of cosmological parameters,…

astro-ph.CO2025

Dark Energy Survey Year 6 Results: Point-spread Function Modeling

T. Schutt, M. Jarvis, A. Roodman +70

We present the point-spread function (PSF) modeling for weak lensing shear measurement using the full six years of the Dark Energy Survey (DES Y6) data. We review the PSF estimatio…

astro-ph.CO2018

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: tomographic cross-correlations between DES galaxies and CMB lensing from SPT+Planck

Y. Omori, T. Giannantonio, A. Porredon +137

We measure the cross-correlation between redMaGiC galaxies selected from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year-1 data and gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB)…

astro-ph.CO2022

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: Cosmological constraints from galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing using the MagLim lens sample

A. Porredon, M. Crocce, J. Elvin-Poole +141

Two of the most sensitive probes of the large scale structure of the universe are the clustering of galaxies and the tangential shear of background galaxy shapes produced by those…

astro-ph.CO2022

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Cosmology from Cosmic Shear and Robustness to Modeling Uncertainty

L. F. Secco, S. Samuroff, E. Krause +151

This work and its companion paper, Amon et al. (2021), present cosmic shear measurements and cosmological constraints from over 100 million source galaxies in the Dark Energy Surve…

astro-ph.CO2022

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: A 2.7% measurement of Baryon Acoustic Oscillation distance scale at redshift 0.835

DES Collaboration, T. M. C. Abbott, M. Aguena +108

We present angular diameter measurements obtained by measuring the position of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) in an optimised sample of galaxies from the first three years of D…

astro-ph.CO2025

Dark Energy Survey Year 6 Results: Synthetic-source Injection Across the Full Survey Using Balrog

D. Anbajagane, M. Tabbutt, J. Beas-Gonzalez +79

Synthetic source injection (SSI), the insertion of sources into pixel-level on-sky images, is a powerful method for characterizing object detection and measurement in wide-field, a…

astro-ph.CO2019

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Constraints on Extended Cosmological Models from Galaxy Clustering and Weak Lensing

DES Collaboration, T. M. C. Abbott, F. B. Abdalla +112

We present constraints on extensions of the minimal cosmological models dominated by dark matter and dark energy, CDM and CDM, by using a combined analysis of galaxy cluster…

astro-ph.CO2025

Multiprobe Cosmology from the Abundance of SPT Clusters and DES Galaxy Clustering and Weak Lensing

S. Bocquet, S. Grandis, E. Krause +216

Cosmic shear, galaxy clustering, and the abundance of massive halos each probe the large-scale structure of the Universe in complementary ways. We present cosmological constraints…

astro-ph.CO2025

Dark Energy Survey Year 6 Results: Photometric Data Set for Cosmology

K. Bechtol, I. Sevilla-Noarbe, A. Drlica-Wagner +103

We describe the photometric data set assembled from the full six years of observations by the Dark Energy Survey (DES) in support of static-sky cosmology analyses. DES Y6 Gold is a…

astro-ph.CO2021

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Galaxy Sample for BAO Measurement

A. Carnero Rosell, M. Rodriguez-Monroy, M. Crocce +106

In this paper we present and validate the galaxy sample used for the analysis of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation signal (BAO) in the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Y3 data. The definitio…

astro-ph.CO2026

Dark Energy Survey Year 6 Results: Cosmological Constraints from Cosmic Shear

DES Collaboration, T. M. C. Abbott, M. Aguena +126

We present legacy cosmic shear measurements and cosmological constraints using six years of Dark Energy Survey imaging data. From these data, we study ~140 million galaxies (8.29 g…

astro-ph.CO2021

Assessing tension metrics with Dark Energy Survey and Planck data

P. Lemos, M. Raveri, A. Campos +103

Quantifying tensions -- inconsistencies amongst measurements of cosmological parameters by different experiments -- has emerged as a crucial part of modern cosmological data analys…

astro-ph.HE2017

The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/VIRGO GW170817. II. UV, Optical, and Near-IR Light Curves and Comparison to Kilonova Models

P. S. Cowperthwaite, E. Berger, V. A. Villar +141

We present UV, optical, and NIR photometry of the first electromagnetic counterpart to a gravitational wave source from Advanced LIGO/Virgo, the binary neutron star merger GW170817…

astro-ph.CO2022

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Cosmological Constraints from Galaxy Clustering and Weak Lensing

DES Collaboration, T. M. C. Abbott, M. Aguena +168

We present the first cosmology results from large-scale structure in the Dark Energy Survey (DES) spanning 5000 deg. We perform an analysis combining three two-point correlatio…

astro-ph.CO2022

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Three-Point Shear Correlations and Mass Aperture Moments

L. F. Secco, M. Jarvis, B. Jain +87

We present high signal-to-noise measurements of three-point shear correlations and the third moment of the mass aperture statistic using the first 3 years of data from the Dark Ene…

astro-ph.CO2022

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: cosmological constraints from the analysis of cosmic shear in harmonic space

C. Doux, B. Jain, D. Zeurcher +135

We present cosmological constraints from the analysis of angular power spectra of cosmic shear maps based on data from the first three years of observations by the Dark Energy Surv…

astro-ph.CO2020

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Cosmological Constraints from Cluster Abundances, Weak Lensing, and Galaxy Correlations

C. To, E. Krause, E. Rozo +105

Combining multiple observational probes is a powerful technique to provide robust and precise constraints on cosmological parameters. In this letter, we present the first joint ana…

astro-ph.CO2021

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: Cosmology with peaks using an emulator approach

D. Zürcher, J. Fluri, R. Sgier +119

We constrain the matter density and the amplitude of density fluctuations within the CDM cosmological model with shear peak statistics and angular conv…

astro-ph.CO2025

Dark Energy Survey Year 6 Results: improved mitigation of spatially varying observational systematics with masking

M. Rodríguez-Monroy, N. Weaverdyck, J. Elvin-Poole +63

As photometric surveys reach unprecedented statistical precision, systematic uncertainties increasingly dominate large-scale structure probes relying on galaxy number density. Defi…

astro-ph.CO2022

Joint analysis of DES Year 3 data and CMB lensing from SPT and Planck I: Construction of CMB Lensing Maps and Modeling Choices

Y. Omori, E. J. Baxter, C. Chang +160

Joint analyses of cross-correlations between measurements of galaxy positions, galaxy lensing, and lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) offer powerful constraints on th…

astro-ph.CO2025

Dark Energy Survey Year 6 Results: Redshift Calibration of the MagLim++ Lens Sample

G. Giannini, A. Alarcon, W. d'Assignies +85

In this work, we derive and calibrate the redshift distribution of the MagLim++ lens galaxy sample used in the Dark Energy Survey Year 6 (DES Y6) 3x2pt cosmology analysis. The 3x2p…

astro-ph.CO2022

Constraining the Baryonic Feedback with Cosmic Shear Using the DES Year-3 Small-Scale Measurements

A. Chen, G. Aricò, D. Huterer +139

We use the small scales of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year-3 cosmic shear measurements, which are excluded from the DES Year-3 cosmological analysis, to constrain the baryonic fe…

astro-ph.CO2025

The Dark Energy Survey: Cosmology Results With ~1500 New High-redshift Type Ia Supernovae Using The Full 5-year Dataset

DES Collaboration, T. M. C. Abbott, M. Acevedo +156

We present cosmological constraints from the sample of Type Ia supernovae (SN Ia) discovered during the full five years of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Supernova Program. In contra…

astro-ph.CO2026

Dark Energy Survey Year 6 Results: Redshift Calibration of the Weak Lensing Source Galaxies

B. Yin, A. Amon, A. Campos +95

Determining the distribution of redshifts for galaxies in wide-field photometric surveys is essential for robust cosmological studies of weak gravitational lensing. We present the…

astro-ph.GA2024

Weak Gravitational Lensing around Low Surface Brightness Galaxies in the DES Year 3 Data

N. Chicoine, J. Prat, G. Zacharegkas +102

We present galaxy-galaxy lensing measurements using a sample of low surface brightness galaxies (LSBGs) drawn from the Dark Energy Survey Year 3 (Y3) data as lenses. LSBGs are diff…

astro-ph.CO2022

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Exploiting small-scale information with lensing shear ratios

C. Sánchez, J. Prat, G. Zacharegkas +138

Using the first three years of data from the Dark Energy Survey, we use ratios of small-scale galaxy-galaxy lensing measurements around the same lens sample to constrain source red…

astro-ph.CO2021

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Redshift Calibration of the Weak Lensing Source Galaxies

J. Myles, A. Alarcon, A. Amon +105

Determining the distribution of redshifts of galaxies observed by wide-field photometric experiments like the Dark Energy Survey is an essential component to mapping the matter den…

astro-ph.CO2022

Consistent lensing and clustering in a low- Universe with BOSS, DES Year 3, HSC Year 1 and KiDS-1000

A. Amon, N. C. Robertson, H. Miyatake +105

We evaluate the consistency between lensing and clustering probes of large-scale structure based on measurements of projected galaxy clustering from BOSS combined with overlapping…

astro-ph.CO2022

DES Y3 results: Blending shear and redshift biases in image simulations

N. MacCrann, M. R. Becker, J. McCullough +93

As the statistical power of galaxy weak lensing reaches percent level precision, large, realistic and robust simulations are required to calibrate observational systematics, especi…

astro-ph.CO2022

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: Galaxy-halo connection from galaxy-galaxy lensing

G. Zacharegkas, C. Chang, J. Prat +114

Galaxy-galaxy lensing is a powerful probe of the connection between galaxies and their host dark matter halos, which is important both for galaxy evolution and cosmology. We extend…

astro-ph.CO2023

A measurement of the mean central optical depth of galaxy clusters via the pairwise kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect with SPT-3G and DES

E. Schiappucci, F. Bianchini, M. Aguena +139

We infer the mean optical depth of a sample of optically-selected galaxy clusters from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) via the pairwise kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect. The…

astro-ph.CO2021

DES Y1 results: Splitting growth and geometry to test CDM

J. Muir, E. Baxter, V. Miranda +100

We analyze Dark Energy Survey (DES) data to constrain a cosmological model where a subset of parameters -- focusing on -- are split into versions associated with structure g…

astro-ph.CO2022

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: imprints of cosmic voids and superclusters in the Planck CMB lensing map

A. Kovács, P. Vielzeuf, I. Ferrero +82

The CMB lensing signal from cosmic voids and superclusters probes the growth of structure in the low-redshift cosmic web. In this analysis, we cross-correlated the Planck CMB lensi…

astro-ph.CO2021

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Covariance Modelling and its Impact on Parameter Estimation and Quality of Fit

O. Friedrich, F. Andrade-Oliveira, H. Camacho +109

We describe and test the fiducial covariance matrix model for the combined 2-point function analysis of the Dark Energy Survey Year 3 (DES-Y3) dataset. Using a variety of new ansat…

astro-ph.CO2022

Robust sampling for weak lensing and clustering analyses with the Dark Energy Survey

P. Lemos, N. Weaverdyck, R. P. Rollins +68

Recent cosmological analyses rely on the ability to accurately sample from high-dimensional posterior distributions. A variety of algorithms have been applied in the field, but jus…

astro-ph.CO2022

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Measuring the Survey Transfer Function with Balrog

S. Everett, B. Yanny, N. Kuropatkin +97

We describe an updated calibration and diagnostic framework, Balrog, used to directly sample the selection and photometric biases of the Dark Energy Survey's (DES) Year 3 (Y3) data…

astro-ph.CO2021

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: curved-sky weak lensing mass map reconstruction

N. Jeffrey, M. Gatti, C. Chang +127

We present reconstructed convergence maps, \textit{mass maps}, from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) third year (Y3) weak gravitational lensing data set. The mass maps are weighted pro…

astro-ph.CO2025

Comparing the DES-SN5YR and Pantheon+ SN cosmology analyses: Investigation based on "Evolving Dark Energy or Supernovae systematics?"

M. Vincenzi, R. Kessler, P. Shah +65

Recent cosmological analyses measuring distances of Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) and Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) have all given similar hints at time-evolving dark energy. To…

astro-ph.CO2025

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Cosmological Constraints from Cluster Abundances, Weak Lensing, and Galaxy Clustering

DES Collaboration, T. M. C. Abbott, M. Aguena +88

Galaxy clusters provide a unique probe of the late-time cosmic structure and serve as a powerful independent test of the CDM model. This work presents the first set of cosmolog…

astro-ph.CO2026

Dark Energy Survey Year 6 Results: Weak Lensing and Galaxy Clustering Cosmological Analysis Framework

D. Sanchez-Cid, A. Ferté, J. Blazek +115

We present the methodology for the weak lensing and galaxy clustering analyses of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 6 data set. In this work, we design and validate the analysis pi…

astro-ph.CO2018

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Joint Analysis of Galaxy Clustering, Galaxy Lensing, and CMB Lensing Two-point Functions

T. M. C. Abbott, F. B. Abdalla, A. Alarcon +164

We perform a joint analysis of the auto and cross-correlations between three cosmic fields: the galaxy density field, the galaxy weak lensing shear field, and the cosmic microwave…

astro-ph.CO2026

Dark Energy Survey Year 6 Results: Clustering-redshifts and importance sampling of Self-Organised-Maps realizations for pt samples

W. d'Assignies, G. M. Bernstein, B. Yin +92

This work is part of a series establishing the redshift framework for the pt analysis of the Dark Energy Survey Year 6 (DES Y6). For DES Y6, photometric redshift distribu…

astro-ph.CO2025

Dark Energy Survey: Modeling strategy for multiprobe cluster cosmology and validation for the Full Six-year Dataset

Chun-Hao To, Elisabeth Krause, Chihway Chang +63

We introduce an updated To&Krause2021 model for joint analyses of cluster abundances and large-scale two-point correlations of weak lensing and galaxy and cluster clustering (terme…

astro-ph.CO2023

DES Y3 + KiDS-1000: Consistent cosmology combining cosmic shear surveys

Dark Energy Survey, Kilo-Degree Survey Collaboration, : +160

We present a joint cosmic shear analysis of the Dark Energy Survey (DES Y3) and the Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS-1000) in a collaborative effort between the two survey teams. We find c…

astro-ph.GA2026

DELVE Milky Way Satellite Galaxy Census I: Satellite Population and Survey Selection Function in DES, DELVE, and Pan-STARRS

C. Y. Tan, A. Drlica-Wagner, A. B. Pace +84

The properties of Milky Way satellite galaxies have important implications for galaxy formation, reionization, and the fundamental physics of dark matter. However, the population o…

astro-ph.CO2020

Blinding multi-probe cosmological experiments

J. Muir, G. M. Bernstein, D. Huterer +62

The goal of blinding is to hide an experiment's critical results -- here the inferred cosmological parameters -- until all decisions affecting its analysis have been finalised. Thi…

astro-ph.CO2026

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: Simulation-based CDM inference from weak lensing and galaxy clustering maps with deep learning: Analysis design

A. Thomsen, J. Bucko, T. Kacprzak +99

Data-driven approaches using deep learning are emerging as powerful techniques to extract non-Gaussian information from cosmological large-scale structure. This work presents the f…

astro-ph.CO2026

Dark Energy Survey Year 6 Results: MagLim++ Lens Sample Selection and Measurements of Galaxy Clustering

N. Weaverdyck, M. Rodríguez-Monroy, J. Elvin-Poole +85

Galaxy clustering is a sensitive probe of the expansion history and growth of structure of the universe, and key degeneracies can be broken by combining these data with measurement…

astro-ph.CO2025

Constraints on cosmology and baryonic feedback with joint analysis of Dark Energy Survey Year 3 lensing data and ACT DR6 thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect observations

S. Pandey, J. C. Hill, A. Alarcon +137

We present a joint analysis of weak gravitational lensing (shear) data obtained from the first three years of observations by the Dark Energy Survey and thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich…

astro-ph.CO2024

The Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program: Investigating Beyond-CDM

R. Camilleri, T. M. Davis, M. Vincenzi +77

We report constraints on a variety of non-standard cosmological models using the full 5-year photometrically-classified type Ia supernova sample from the Dark Energy Survey (DES-SN…

astro-ph.CO2022

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Constraints on cosmological parameters and galaxy bias models from galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing using the redMaGiC sample

S. Pandey, E. Krause, J. DeRose +138

We constrain cosmological and galaxy-bias parameters using the combination of galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing measurements from the Dark Energy Survey Year-3 data. We d…

astro-ph.CO2021

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Galaxy mock catalogs for BAO analysis

I. Ferrero, M. Crocce, I. Tutusaus +83

The calibration and validation of scientific analysis in simulations is a fundamental tool to ensure unbiased and robust results in observational cosmology. In particular, mock gal…

astro-ph.CO2024

Dark Energy Survey Year 3: Blue Shear

J. McCullough, A. Amon, E. Legnani +115

Modeling the intrinsic alignment (IA) of galaxies poses a challenge to weak lensing analyses. The Dark Energy Survey is expected to be less impacted by IA when limited to blue, sta…

astro-ph.CO2017

A gravitational-wave standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant

B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott +1308

The detection of GW170817 in both gravitational waves and electromagnetic waves heralds the age of gravitational-wave multi-messenger astronomy. On 17 August 2017 the Advanced LIGO…

astro-ph.CO2023

Cosmological constraints from the tomography of DES-Y3 galaxies with CMB lensing from ACT DR4

G. A. Marques, M. S. Madhavacheril, O. Darwish +92

We present a measurement of the cross-correlation between the MagLim galaxies selected from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) first three years of observations (Y3) and cosmic microwave…